Short

Because it's after midnight.

Boss bailed again. She did come in to work, though, despite her dental stuff. Turns out the set top box I was expecting from her was meant for someone else to test.

Managed to beat the TV into submission which had been giving problems. Factory reset, re-installed apps.

Home. Traffic was very light for rush hour. Caught up with it just in time to not take 237.

Delivered was a pair of shoes, which I will try on tomorrow, and the new router, which took up way too much of my time. I had copied all the info from the previous router, but all the DHCP and port forwarding addresses had to be entered one by one.

The Sonos speakers were a pain in the butt to get working. They are playing my favorite Thai station now, so I'm happy.

With a new router comes a new port forwarding IP, so I had to punch in that number 8 times in the phone app, and will need to install the same into my tablet. And my webcam.html page has been updated with all but one camera, which is a different model. I have another one en route which should fix that. The rtsp cam is going back, it doesn't tilt/swivel, and I don't need rtsp anymore.

I swapped the cats. Spook did not like that at all, and somehow managed to find and rip to shreds a priceless piece of paper with words handwritten by me in Thai and English to a very hard to find song from an even harder to find 1976 movie, Woman The World Forgot. Maybe I can find lyrics online. But I doubt it. It begins "In this world, do good, no one sees"

And Zoe has been jumping up on everything. Piano top, microwave, stove, etc. I have transplanted her to the tree in the office, bribing her with a meat stick. She doesn't care for the usual treats, but loves those Sheba things.

Dinner was duck soup with shrimp wontons. No time for dessert.

Been following the student walk-outs and associated news. It fills my heart to see the kids doing that. In the early 70s we helped change the world with protests. The torch skipped a generation, but had finally been taken up.

Plans for tomorrow:
Try on new shoes
Work - lots of tests to do on resurrected TV
Home 

สตรีที่โลกลืม

This is the song Spook tore up. Found it pretty quickly by using Google Translate to cut and paste the Thai words for the movie title (in the subject line) and searching YouTube. The lyrics in Thai are in the YT comments, I'll paste them under the embed tag. Translation some other time. Satri Ti Loke Luem - woman the world forgot.

ชาตินี้ ทำดีไม่มีใครเห็น
เหมือนคน มีเวรและบาปกรรม
ชาตินี้ ฉันจึงต้องพลี ร่างกาย
ในทาง ชั่วต่ำ ระกำตลอดมา
โอ้หญิง ใจจริงนั้นใครจะเห็น
เพราะความ จำเป็นจึงชั่วช้า
อ่อนนัก
เคราะห์กรรมทำให้ฉัน ไร้ค่า
ทั้งความ อ่อนเดียงสาแห่งใจ
..ฮืม..........
..ฮืม..........
โลกนี้ คนที่ปล่อยตัวชั่วช้า
เหมือนตรา ประทับรอยบาปไป
ชีพนี้
ทิ้งความดีมีเหลือ ให้น้อย ใจ
โลก ไฉน กลับ...ลืม

Cam IO

Did not sleep well, Zoe was out and about all night, I was hoping she would keep me company. First thing after I was dressed I put her back in the room and kicked Spook out into the main house.

Way late getting up, no time to try on the new shoes. Got to work half an hour late, did not go for bananas. I had packed enough for sort of a breakfast. Did not end up eating it all. Note to self: next time pack a spoon.

Work was a lot of manual testing of a finicky TV. Took all day.

Lunch was sweet & sour chicken steamer. Yummy. Added a HB egg. Dessert was some grapes and some mint fudge cookies. Thick mints, I guess.

Called both of my sisters. Middle sister is visiting in May. Baby sister is bicycling to BC about the same time as Worldcon. She isn't too sure about it, it's her husband's idea. He has become quite the bike racer/long distance type.

Stayed till after 6, traffic was very heavy for the first leg, so I took the expressway route I did Wednesday. Looked at my gas guage and decided if I was going to be driving 100+ miles tomorrow  maybe 1/4 tank was not enough, so filled it. The readout says the car is now good for 600+ miles, but I don't trust that, even for a hybrid.

Home, delivered was a Reolink CP-1 wifi cam, which supports 5GHz. Set it up and discovered it will not do - there is only admin mode, no way to share the video safely. I may have to buy a used Foscam on eBay. Later. No rush.

Watched PTI, dinner was fish fillets and shrimp egg rolls. Home made tartar sauce for the fish. Thai honey-chili sauce for the egg rolls.

Zoe was acting paranoid the first time I visited, a couple of hours later she was her affectionate self. At work I found another place to post a re-home request for her.

Middle sister suggested giving up Spook instead. I'm not really tempted, although that kind of makes sense.

Going to bed early, have to be on the road by 9:30.

Plans for tomorrow:
Lenore's memorial service at the Neptune Society SF.
Pear Improv night in MV